Fee Splitting
Fee splitting practice is one of the major reasons considered in creation of medical malpractice. Incentives and referral fees to acquire a patient encourages a care provider to do unnecessary treatment, prescribe expensive unnecessary branded drugs, and tests. Patients trust on his doctor is getting exploited by many fee split practitioners and such patients are put through battery of such necessary treatment protocols just to gain money and referral fees.
Dr Akash S Rajpal CEO of Ekohealth is working against the unethical referral fee split system (also referred to as CUT practice) in India. He is stern believer that the fee-split system has artificially inflated the pricing of healthcare services by atleast 30% and is leading to gross medical Mal-practice leading to prescribing unnecessary treatment and tests
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